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Michael Perry was charged with first-degree murder on Friday, Dec. 16, and a judge ordered him held without bond, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.
Police went to perform a welfare check on Jose Aponte who lived at 35 Northampton Street in Roxbury, but officers said he was dead when they arrived, authorities said. They called a SWAT team when they heard someone else inside the apartment. That person was later identified as Perry.
He threatened officers, and after a SWAT team failed to de-escalate the situation, Perry jumped from the 12th-story building but got caught on the window ledge, authorities said. He hung there until officers went down to the 11th floor and rescued him.
Police took him to a nearby hospital for minor wounds.
Investigators have not released the name of the person killed or how they died.
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